著者
Daisuke NISHIO-HAMANE Tetsuo MINAKAWA Hanako OKADA
出版者
Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences
雑誌
Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences (ISSN:13456296)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.109, no.1, pp.34-37, 2014 (Released:2014-02-22)
参考文献数
10
被引用文献数
2 6

Iwateite, Na2BaMn(PO4)2 is a new mineral, which was found in the manganese ore of the No. 3 (Matsumaezawa) deposit in the Tanohata mine, Tanohata Village, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Iwateite has a glaserite structure, which occurs as granular to anhedral inclusions of 10-100 μm in the main constituent minerals in manganese ore and sérandite crystal. It is colorless with white streaks, non-fluorescent, and it displays very weak pleochroism. Iwateite crystallizes in the trigonal system and belongs to the P3 space group where, a = 5.3642(10), c = 7.039(2) Å, V = 175.41(8) Å3, and Z = 1, with a calculated density of 4.06 g/cm3.